Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5301
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alyson Stoner works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Alyson Stoner appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alyson. Incredibles 2 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for horror, thriller, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Allisyn Snyder, Dan Povenmire, Matt Peters and others, Alyson Stoner helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Incredibles 2 (2018) as Additional Voices (voice) · Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020) as Isabella (voice) · Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014) as Pilot Isabella (voice) / Additional Voices
Career snapshot
Ranked #5301 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2003–2023
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Incredibles 2
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Incredibles 2
Most frequent director
Dan Povenmire
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Dan Povenmire
Most common genre
Family
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 28m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.3
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters, Selling Isobel, Incredibles 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Step Up, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Cheaper by the Dozen.
Most productive era
2010s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.62 films | 5.01 film | — |
| Action | — | 7.14 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.01 film | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 6.84 films | 7.21 film |
| Crime | 6.91 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sarah Baker.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Incredibles 2
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2023Howdy, Neighbor!
The current state of the argument, as Amber.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
11 of 11 films
as Isabella (voice)
Directed by Dan Povenmire
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Brad Bird
as Pilot Isabella (voice) / Additional Voices
Directed by Robert Hughes
as Camille Gage
Directed by Anne Fletcher
as Isabella Garcia-Shapiro / Isabella-2 (voice)
Directed by Dan Povenmire
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Isabella (voice)
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Isabella (voice) gives Alyson Stoner a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Performance score7.3
Incredibles 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pilot Isabella (voice) / Additional Voices
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014)
Performance score7.1
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pilot Isabella (voice) / Additional Voices is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Camille Gage
Step Up (2006)
Performance score7.1
Step Up asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Camille Gage is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Isabella (voice)
Start here. Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe is the clearest statement of what Alyson Stoner does — accessible, 86 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alyson at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Step Up (2006)
A deliberate change of key after Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Step Up — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014)
Keeps the action register of Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension but asks for a colder reading of it.
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Keeps the action register of Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Dan Povenmire
Director
2 films together
Notably Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Cheaper by the Dozen
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Anne Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Step Up
Robert Vince
Director
1 film together
Notably Super Buddies
Robert Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Incredibles 2
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters
Allisyn Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Howdy, Neighbor!
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Dan Povenmire
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the UniverseBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Incredibles 2Robert Hughes
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb: Star WarsAnne Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Step UpMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO DC Batman: Family MattersShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cheaper by the DozenAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cheaper by the Dozen 2Robert Vince
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Super BuddiesAllisyn Snyder
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Howdy, Neighbor!Six degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Step Up
as Camille Gage
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe
as Isabella (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Alyson Stoner has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
20 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Family Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in family, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Step Up
as Camille Gage
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Selling Isobel
as Katie
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
as Isabella Garcia-Shapiro / Isabella-2 (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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